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(No ModeL) 0. s. DIKEMAN.

NAPKIN HOLDER.

Patented Jui 31.1883.

' INVENTOR:

WITNESS-ES: I

ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

CHARLES s. DIKEMAN, or WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

NAPKlN- HOLDER.

PECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentN'o. 282,286, dated July 31,1883. Application filed Januai leo, fees. no model.)

.To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES S. DIKEMAN, of WVaterbury, in the county ofNew Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented anew and ImprovedNapkin-Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improvednapkin-holder provided with devices for readily and rapidly removingthe. napkin from the holder.

The invention consists in a new and improved napkin-holder, and indevices -for lifting the napkin out of the holder, all as will be fullyset forth in the following description and claims. a

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures. 7

Figure l is a perspective view of my improved napkin-holder, showing thenapkin removed. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same, showing thenapkin held in the same. Fig. 3-is a longitudinal elevation of the same,showing the napkin held in the same.

The napkin-holder is formed of two springforks, A, united by plates 13,bars, or rods, which forks have eyes or loops 0 at theupper ends oftheir prongs, through which loops or eyes an endless chain, D, or a cordis passed. If the chain D is drawn to be taut between two correspondingloops, 0, at opposite ends of the holder, as shown in Fig. 1, and therolled napkin is placed on the chain and pressed down into the forksinto the position shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the chain D will extend fromthe loop 0 at one end to the loop 0 at the opposite end of thenapkinholder, at the front and rear, and will form loops at each end ofthe holder, which loops pass under and support the napkin, the napkinbeing also held in the holder by the spring-prongs of the forks. If thenapkin is to be removed, the chain is drawn downward or outward betweentwo front prongs-that is, it is drawn downward or outward between twocorrespondings prongs at opposite ends of the holder-and thereby thatpart of the between the prongs of the'forks.

ble levers.

chain forming the loops at the ends will be drawn taut between the twoprongs .of the same fork, as shown in Fig. 1, andthereby the napkin willbe raised and removed from I have shown each fork and its base formed ofone strip of metal or piece of wire, which two forks are unitedby platesB, secured to the legs, but the forks can be made independent of thebase and secured to the same, and can bemade of plates instead ofstrips.

In place of using two forks, a U-shaped or troughshaped plate can beused, which has an aperture, ring, or loop on each corner.

In place of using an endless chain, a lever the napkin independently ofthe chains or levers; but I prefer to use the chain, as it is thesimplest construction.

The forks or U-shaped plate can. be madeof metal,'rubber, or celluloid.7

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

The spring-forks can also hold '1. A napkin-holder constructed, asherein shown and described, with a spring-fork or U shaped plate forholding the napkin, substantially as set forth- 2. A napkin-holderconstructed with two spring-forks united by bars or platesysubstautially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. A napkin-holder constructed with springforks or a U-shaped plate, andprovided with devices for lifting the napkin out of the forks or Ushaped plate, substantially as herein shown and described, and for thepurpose set forth.

4. A napkin-holder constructed with springforksor a" U-Shaped platecombined with an endless chain passing through loops or eyes at Q geseasc the four corners of the holder, substantially as herein shown anddescribed, and for the purpose set forth.

5. A napkin-holder constructed with two spring-forks having loops oreyes at the upper ends of the prongs, and of an endless chain passedthrough the said loops or eyes, substantially as herein shown anddescribed, and for the purpose set forth.

6. In a napkin-holder, the combination, with the forks A, formed of wirebent to form the forks and their legs, of the plates B, uniting the legsof the two forks, substantially as herein shown and described, and forthe purpose set forth.

CHARLES SANFORD DIKEMAN.

\Vitnesses:

OSCAR F. GUNZ, O. SEDGWIOK;

